Dream of Ding Village: A Conversation with Novelist Yan Lianke

Yan Lianke is a Chinese novelist frequently nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. In this special virtual Humanities Without Boundaries talk, Yan will discuss his experiences researching and writing Dream of Ding Village, the prescient story of a public health crisis of the 1990s when rural villages selling their blood led to an AIDS outbreak. He will reflect on the novel’s perspective on pandemic profiteering, government corruption, as well as trauma and hope.